I've searched the internet and can't find an adapter to mount a custom steering wheel on my Dodge. I checked all the custom steering wheel manufacturers I can think of and nobody seems to have one. The car has a kinda large hollow steering shaft and nothing I had kicking around comes even close. Surely somebody has mounted a custom wheel on an early 50's mopar! Any help would be appreciated...
Find an original , beat up, crusty wheel and cut the hub part of it out and weld it to a modern wheel. OR find an original wheel in decent shape and run it. Or adapt an aftermarket column to the car with U joints and other "stuff"to make it work. I don't think there's a bolt on adapter for what your trying to do. It's not a popular car to run an aftermarket wheel without an aftermarket column.
I've done this a couple of times using the hub from an original wheel as the starting point of the adapter.
Probably my best bet. Right now the steering wheel is usable, but the diameter is too big (18")! When I got the car all the bakelite was gone from the rim so I split a piece of light weight garden hose to fit, then put a leather wrap over that. Looks good and is quite comfortable- just too big. Even at 6' the rim is in my line of sight!
Gonna bite the bullet and pull the steering wheel out of the Dodge this week. After I strip what remains of the plastic (bakelite?) off, I will decide what makes more sense, turn the old hub into an "adapter" or weld my aftermarket wheel to the hub...
Stripped the old wheel and cut it off the hub. Gave the aftermarket wheel and hub to a buddy to weld it up and just got it back. I decided to use the original center cap as the aftermarket horn ****on was missing. My friend made a custom bracket to hold the cap. Definitely different...
I did a tech article here several years ago about making an adapter out of an old wheel, wonder if that's still around.
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